Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [noun] [vb past] the first " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Capel Ablett and Fiery Fred opened the batting for W & V Capel missed the first three balls and played on to his stumps with the fourth ball . |
| 2 | Liverpool won 5-0 at Goodison Park , and Ian Rush became the first player to net four in a derby game since Freddie Howe in 1935 . |
| 3 | Two years and a historical event passed before Jack Elliot and Harold Farrington made the first commercial flights in Curtiss Jennies , on March 3 , 1926 . |
| 4 | When Mr Bush lost and Mr Clinton became the first Democratic president for more than a decade , the much-valued special relationship between Britain and America suddenly looked decidedly shaky . |
| 5 | In June 1953 , Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing became the first men to conquer Mount Everest . |
| 6 | She and Hannah Dooley left the First Spiritualist and founded a Household Church . |
| 7 | In 1910 , when a delegacy for women students was set up , control of the home students was taken over by the university and Bertha Johnson became the first woman to hold a senior university appointment in Oxford as principal of the Society of Oxford Home Students . |
| 8 | Ronnie Carey made the breakthrough on 16 minutes after a Jeremy Hastings break , and Ashley Blair added the first of three superb conversions . |
| 9 | In 1887 he and A. Tanakadate conducted the first magnetic survey of Japan . |